skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems like it could lead to (among other things) a non-third party scheme for link shortening.
Do you feel that adding those features makes it too similar to the competition? Asana? Basecamp?

I've had those features in my todo list for a while but just refrained to make this as simple as possible and let people take it where they need it :)

Thanks so much for your feedback and support.
People shouldn't let cheating degrade the quality of education. You either possess the skills or you don't, and if you don't you shouldn't act like you do. It'll probably be obvious. Here's the scenario in my mind...

A: "Oh hey I know how to program Scala"

B: "Ok program Scala..."

A: "Well I only got the cert, I don't actually know."

B: "Sorry I guess you're not qualified then. Why don't you learn?"
Traction.

But BitBucket will continue to get better, and Atlassian doesn't produce shit products.
Fair enough. Perhaps, the second option I proposed might work. The value of a Coursera certificate will not be reduced if it continues to be only a tiny minority who cheats.

I suppose I've always been of the opinion that they should offer the courses in a fashion similar to that of Khan Academy. I don't expect a certificate when I complete a section there as I'm there for the purpose of educating myself, not for accrediting myself. I think it's hard for Coursera to fulfill accreditation, but wish them the best if it's what they want to try for.
> The issue here is that NaCl and Xax are proprietary approaches

If you had told me in the 90s when Microsoft was king that someday "proprietary" would be used to describe a completely open-source, documented, published technology that its creator encourages others to adopt, I would have laughed and said it's impossible.

> NaCl is weak at handling dynamically generated code

They got it working for x86 (http://static.googleusercontent.com/external_content/untrust...) and it's currently just not prioritized for PNaCl AFAIK.

> PNaCl from what I recall relies on LLVM which is yet to demonstrate low latency code generation performance

Sounds like the kind of problem that can be addressed once other much bigger problems are solved. It's not like any such problem would be fundamental or insurmountable.

> in contrast to older more mature code generators such as TAOS, LuaJit.

I don't know about TAOS but LuaJIT 2.0 (with it's completely rewritten code generator) is only 5 years old compared to LLVM's 12 years. Even LuaJIT 1 is only 7-8 years old.
> Also, you should update the Atlassian Store with t-shirts and other swag.

Launching a t-shirt store in three weeks.
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If you're on Coursera there's a good chance you don't have a .edu address.

Maybe Coursera should host private repos?
Agreed the title is too link-baity for my liking too. I should have probably edited that to something more appropriate before posting.
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>>Because then they run the risk of getting Amazon'd or Wal-Mart'd.

Your post sounds like Amazon and Wall-Mart are doing some thing wrong in the way they are running things.

And what is the risk you are talking about. Do you mean to imply Amazon and Wall-Mart are evil and have some caused damage to their consumers/customers?
To me it makes a lot more sense:

1) not all users are coders. For instance Sourceforge assumes that people will be most interested in downloading a binary. Not a bad assumption for its time, and still its primary usage. Github often the top google link for a project, and would be intimidating for somebody who just wants to download and use a Windows app.

2) If I'm interested in something, I take a look at the README, code, issues & wiki. So code as one of many rather than front and center is not necessarily correct. But once I've started using something, I've already got the code and am much more interested in everything else.
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I'm not sure I agree 100% with your police work there.

I am enrolled in the class, and when I got the e-mail, my first thought was "Great. Now I have to worry about whether or not my work will look too similar to someone else's, or to the solutions that have been posted."

Granted, my first submission for assignment #2 was a third of a point short of 10/10, so maybe I don't have anything to worry about.
unless it turns out (in physical reality, this is not an ethical statement) that the social creatures who would selflessly upload whatever they worked on for the benefit of their peers, without giving a shit about the ethics program of their schools, turn out to be better employees than those who would never do such a thing.

is such a thing possible? I am not saying one way or another. I am saying it's not the be-all, end-all signal, and you should prove that it even goes in the direction you suggest. :)
This never made much sense. I don't see what would keep some other company from coming up with a patentable gene in corn, spreading it all over the US, waiting a generation for it to cross pollinate and then demanding license fees paid by everyone.

Heck, you might even be able to plant it near where Monsanto grows their corn for seed and then sue Monsanto.
I was going by this blog post from Brendan Eich:

https://brendaneich.com/2011/06/new-javascript-engine-module...

Where he says "[...] TraceMonkey, which we launched ahead of Chrome and V8".

Maybe "shipped" was the wrong word. I suppose there's some definition of "launched" that makes the statement true; tracemonkey landed, and was announced, in August 2008. But you're right, the Chrome beta (Sept. 2, 2008 according to wikipedia) did precede FF 3.1 beta 1 (Oct 18, 2008).
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Thus, why I don't care if they fail and are wiped out.
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When I bought my last car, I actually had it both ways: slimy car salesman and nice guy who made it all go smoothly.

After looking around, I was ultimately interested in 2 different cars from different dealers. For car one, the salesman kept hedging of a price. The price that I knew I could get according to my research wasn't even close to the price he quoted. He was actually quite pleasant to deal with, but I just had a feeling that the dealership wanted to keep prices high.

At a different dealer for the same car, the salesman wouldn't even give me a price for the car until they saw my trade-in. I walked out of that place immediately.

For the car that I ultimately bought, I walked into the sales office with my wife and two kids. He immediately setup a test drive (including our car seats). When we got back, we quickly went through the options we'd need and the price of the car. It was all very transparent, and with the manufacturer incentives (end of the model year) it was a pretty reasonable price (well below invoice), and I was very happy with it. I actually liked the first car better, but was very happy with the one I ended up with.

Because of how that guy treated us, I'd go back to him to by multiple cars in the future. So really, it goes back to the balance between maximizing short-term profits over long term profits. The sleazier the dealerships will try to maximize short term sales at the expense of long term sales. The better ones try to build customer relationships so that they aren't just selling you one car. They are trying to also sell you your next car.
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He's definitely not a B-player, but that makes it all the more mysterious why this project is missing the target so badly.

I don't think the questions are awful, though they do tend to have a trivia component to them.

What I think has really happened is that the whole thing is completely mispackaged. By calling it a "software development final exam" and saying it's things every programmer should know, he's set up an idea that it would be fairly broad and comprehensive, when in reality it's fairly narrow.

Plus that terminology is a bit socially off-key since it sets people up to be defensive rather engaging in meaningful discussion.
I think one of the reasons for github's success is that it put a lot of emphasis on the "social" part of the website. At some point using github was "cool" and I think there's been a massive network effect. It's sourceforge meets facebook.

I sometimes wonder if github's not headed to become the new reddit. At least if you look at some of the comment threads on the site it looks that way [1].

Bitbucket feels more like an old school "code hosting" service. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

[1] https://github.com/visionmedia/n/issues/86
Nice. Purchased a Kinect a couple of days ago and failed to get it up and running with SDK 1.5 in a virtual machine. Thanks for making it work in virtualized environments.

Any chance to get my hands on KinEtre?
wasnt this public without a road block for the past few weeks? i was really enjoying some of the photography
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This interface looks great. I suggest that the landing page have several ways to get to prominent open source projects hosted on Bitbucket so people can easily see the live interface before signing up.
I would have went the other way and forced everyone to develop in public via github (or similar, in fact it wouldn't need to be private if Coursera had access to the git repository). I'd guess it would be more work to try and painstakingly recreate a unique and authentic looking sequence of commits than it would to just do it yourself, probably teach some good habits too.
I remember being presented with the Honor Code directly when I started the course. I don't remember if it was a popup or during the introduction video, but it was definitely highlighted.
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Yay! Github's UI has been slowly getting worse over the last year, and their paid account options are terrible (limits on the number of private repositories, as opposed to the disk space). I've been a paying company for years and years, but I recently scaled back from four paying accounts to one.

I don't want to have to organize my private git repositories around GitHub's idiotic account restrictions, so I'm going to give BitBucket a try with some personal repos and see if the UI works for me. If it does, you've got a new customer. :D
Yep. That's pretty much the focus of google code.
I am wondering what would look like Javascript would look like if it was built from the ground to be the ASM of browser languages.
Bitbucket had a pretty easy time of winning my business: free private repositories for small teams is a great way to draw people in.
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with that essential caveat, this is a very good point. My backup drive died in the midst of this crisis, and I specifically chose to use backblaze instead of buying a new drive. Obviously, it's not a 1-to-1 tradeoff in terms of functionality, but it was close enough for this data that I felt like I was better off paying them monthly than paying an inflated drive price upfront; they were drive farming for me by proxy.
The design is very clean and appealing. I'm glad to see they're still investing significant effort. I want to see Bitbucket get more visibility and success.

I prefer Mercurial. Among other things, it has better cross platform support. Bitbucket added Git a while ago. I wish Github would add Mercurial.

Bitbucket also offers unlimited private repos. That means I only use Github for OSS projects. I use Bitbucket for everthing else. Consequently, I always recommend them to friends and companies looking for hosted repos.
What you're doing is inefficient, and they do write about that. The solution is called car sharing and public transportation.

I drive 10000 miles per year. That's about average, but nowhere near running an engine at full power 24x7.

I don't have two spare hours each day to cover the public transit time delta. (4-8 times longer than driving) Maybe if I laid off HN…
Let's hope the government sees Tesla as the exception it is and lets them do their thing.
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Mozilla is categorically against the idea of NaCl, yes. Because it's tied to particular hardware.

PNaCl, if it ever happens, will be a separate discussion.
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It's not that simple: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/stateco...

Since the regulations aren't applied specifically to out-of-state businesses, and considering that many states have the same laws (hence there's no unreasonable burden on out-of-state businesses), they may be legal.

I'm not a lawyer either, though.
Not sure about Paris, but the Brits moving to Spain aren't moving to start businesses (unless you count "Lineker's UK Fun Pub" and similar).
Which I'd imagine shouldn't ever happen, and that's why they're taking a very cautious approach to using the robotic arm until they can rule that out.
All my dreams are coming true. Great work guys.
If they're going to issue certificates that people respect, they should do it like EdX is planning: paid formal testing at exam centers.

For connecting top students with recruiters, they're already looking at contributions to forums as well as homework/test scores. It shouldn't be too hard to see who's really engaged with the material.

Getting uptight about people sharing work seems counterproductive and hopeless.
Or even make a cookie value part of the mix. The cookie could be from another domain and only accessible through a javascript API on the browser.
I just found out that bitbucket has unlimited private repos. That's one HUGE point for them on Github.
Oh okay, I took a course and have no memory of being presented with the Honor Code. The one they linked to is in their ToS, it still deserves it's own page.
What problem does it solve? That's what you should ask yourself.

It just looks like another to-do app to me, which I might even have developed myself in about fifteen minutes. Also as others have mentioned, this is more of a project than some startup.
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How useful are keyboard shortcuts really?
Fellow hackers, we developed an app that teaches keyboard shortcuts for Office applications. It’s called KeyRocket and is fairly simple and unintrusive. We are at a stage where product/market fit has not been attained yet, so I’d like to hear some feedback from the hacker community here at ycombinator.

Do you use keyboard shortcuts at all?
Which applications would you like to know the shortcuts for?
How much would you pay for a keyboard shortcut trainer?

Thanks guys!
I love bitbucket, unlimited private repos is great for start-ups. I have scripts for creating repos thanks to their api.
>Coursera should just publicly identify cheaters so I can cross check against resumes or certifications. Problem solved.

This introduces a lot of problems, all of which are difficult to solve and not directly related to the fundamental vision of Coursera. If I cheat under the full name of my sworn enemy, I can have them publicly blacklisted from any employer who uses this list. Identification seems like the logical next step, but it's no easy task especially when your students come from hundreds of different countries with varying forms of ID.

If you're serious in your suggestion, you're going to have to explain how these kinds of problems can be solved. You're then going to have the same problem Google+ had with online identities. Why should one be forced to give their real identity if they're simply trying to learn, not to be recognized for it?
If biotech crops are indeed key to our survival then that is incentive enough. No monetary incentive is needed. In fact something "key to our survival" should not be allowed to be for-profit.

Although, I seriously doubt biotech is key to survival. It's more likely to encourage, overpopulation, resource depletion, and push us towards monoculture / susceptibleness to catastrophic disease / crop failure.
I don't want to make you feel bad or rain on your parade but you must know there are hundreds of competing apps just like this. That's not to say yours can't be successful but if you'd like it to stand out you need to differentiate yourself somehow. Right now you've basically got a todo list app that lets you share lists via a public URL. It's very simple (that's neither good or bad, it just is).

So considering how simple the concept is, I think there are a few things to think about that would make this valuable and stand out from the crowd.

First, focus on convenience. There are a billion todo lists all approaching different aspects of the task management problem and approaching it in different ways. Your approach is my favorite of all - just a list that you can check stuff off of. Its perfect. But I won't use it unless its easier and more convenient to use than any other option. So I need an app (a mobile web site will suffice which I see you already have but can use improvement). I need a way to come back in case I forget the URL of my list. I just need to be able to whip out my phone/tablet/laptop/browser and be able to get creating/checking off/reading my todos in no more than 2 or 3 steps.

Once you get convenience down, then work on design. You're off to a great start. There no frills, its super simple and minimal and its really great but it doesn't have that intangible thing that makes it memorable. You're definitely on the right track and I wouldn't tell you to add anything but just to refine what you have. Focus on typography and UI interaction.

And if this is meant for teams then I think you'll need to create a login system and some more privacy. I don't always feel comfortable putting all my todos in public even if they're only available via a special URL. A lot of things can happen to a URL. I think its great that you have a lazy login system but to me the fact that I can't save my own account and come back to it later to see all my lists and all my tasks, and see who on my team is currently sharing tasks wit me makes this feel like a one-off app. Like something you use for a day then forget about. But if I could use the app, decide I like it, then create a permanent account I'd be much more likely to return in the future and be invested in the product.

I don't care how many trillion todo apps we have out there, there are never enough. I like what you're doing and I'd say focus on convenience and design and if you're serious about making this for teams then give people the option to create permanent accounts. I probably won't use this today or tomorrow or next week but I did sign up for mailing list and I'm definitely excited to see what you come up with in the future.
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The original Microprose game was awesome. The turn-based strategy version of this remake is more interesting to me than the FPS for sure.
There are some video trailers here: http://www.xcom.com/enemyunknown/videos
As an employer, I take continuing education of any sort as a positive sign when looking at resumes. Software development is a Red Queen field; one has to keep up.

However, I do take most certifications as mild negative signs. E.g., SCJP, CSM, PMP. A lot of for-profit certifications are worthless. A notable exception are some of the Cisco certs, which really put people through their paces. Which makes sense, as Cisco benefits more from having expensive Cisco products work well than from certification revenue.

It'll be interesting to see what bucket Coursera certs fall into. They need to jump on the cheating thing right quick, though.
Tangent, but what a misleading use of those stupid Facebook and Google+ buttons. For a moment I was asking myself how your upload could have amassed so much attention so fast.
I think we can make the argument now that the current copyright/patent absurdities are harming future generations. It's just that for most people, if it doesn't affect them today then they don't care because they are likely incapable of realizing it will affect them tomorrow.
Henry Ford was the one that started the independent dealer model. It made sense back then, because there was no way he could handle both the manufacture and distribution of the vehicles across the nation.

Today, the average dealer makes about $750,000 in profit each year. Many of these dealers are family owned and very active with local politics. In many smaller cities, the car dealership provides a good portion of tax revenues.

With all this said, dealerships have incredible clout when it comes to legislation. They pretty much ruined TrueCar.com's business model.

I think Tesla will be forced to offer independent distribution at some point if they get larger. And I've read that they are planning to do so. The dealer lobby is just way too strong in this country.
Monsanto should be sued for polluting the natural bio-system and be forced to clean up their mess. Soon the fossil fuel companies will be suing hospitals from profiteering from their air contributions.
We always assume that users are going to make security mistakes and build around that. We should assume the same about developers and stop expecting them to build secure sites. That is how the web actually is already, and it is unlikely to change any time soon.
They'd still make lots of money from their service department, so I wouldn't feel sorry for them.
For those that don't click on the image, there is a hole in the rover where a screw would normally be found. Does anyone here know if this is intentional?
If species always "bred true", we'd all be single cell organisms huddled around some carbon rich undersea thermal vent.

I don't see how human genetic selection is morally inferior to natural selection, nor how human designed genetic recombination is morally inferior to random mutation.
You're too late, Monsanto's already doing that now with soybeans.
I've seen this story on a few sites now, and none of them bothered to show just where exactly in that image the part is supposed to be. Very helpful.
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Patenting genes strikes me as the only use of patents worse than patenting software.
Just build a cool app, make it the best you can, but don't quit your day job yet. As you go along and learn more about your users and the app starts to get a life or personality of its own then you'll probably be able to see a clear business model. I'm going to guess you haven't been working on this for more than a month or two so its very early to make any kind of judgement yet.

Just enjoy the ride and you'd be surprised what people will pay for. I don't care how many free todo apps are out there people will still pay for them. For examples, Things for Mac. Incredibly simple concept but its valuable enough that even I bought it a while back.
[Citation needed] with regards to "then they buy a land around his, put their seeds on, wind blows them on the farmer land, then they sue him for stealing their seeds"

If you are referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmeis... then you are eliding the part where "[Schmeiser] had used Roundup herbicide to clear weeds around power poles and in ditches adjacent to a public road running beside one of his fields, and noticed that some of the canola which had been sprayed had survived. Schmeiser then performed a test by applying Roundup to an additional 3 acres (12,000 m2) to 4 acres (16,000 m2) of the same field. He found that 60% of the canola plants survived. At harvest time, Schmeiser instructed a farmhand to harvest the test field. That seed was stored separately from the rest of the harvest, and used the next year to seed approximately 1,000 acres (4 km²) of canola."

If there was a situation where Monsanto sued and won against a farmer operating in good faith after accidental contamination, please cite it. Monsanto may be an evil megacorp (See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Company#1997_WTVT_news...) but evil is not directly related to their GM work.
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